$10.00 FLASH SALE extended!! - Nov 11, 2022
Cottage Garden Plants for just $10.00.
Dear gardening friends
Our $10.00 FLASH SALE was so successful last week, we've extended it for another week. We've teamed up with another supplier, who is overstocked with spring stock.
Fresh stock has arrived, just in time for the weekend. We have new varieties, that will attract butterflies into your garden.
"Buzz The Butter Fly bush" is available in white or mauve for just $10.00.
This hardy shrub produces butterfly attracting flowers for 6 months or more.
It's easy to grow, it's amazing!
We have more ground cover plants reduced to $10.00 this week, including a new type of Pig Face plant, that flowers longer, and covers the ground faster. It's called Delosperma and we have four colours available.
We also have perennial Petunias!!!!!
These fabulous free flowering plants will add colour to your gardens for 9 months.
Simply prune them back when they start to look untidy, and they will flower again and again. These normally sell for $17.99.
They are reduced to $10.00.
Plant them in pots or hanging baskets.
Use our Tim's Best Potting Mix, and they will reach their full potential.
We've got over 100 of Arthur's Big Greek Tomato plants ready to plant now.
This heirloom variety, is grown by us to raise money for the African AIDS Foundation in Camden.
Plants cost $5.00, and all money goes to the charity. Sales have been slow this spring. We've had so much rain, some of you haven't bothered to grow tomatoes.
You still have time to plant them.
Home grown tomatoes taste so much sweeter than woolies tomatoes.
Grow one in a pot if your limited with space.
Use our Tim's Best Potting Mix.
You'll be eating tomatoes all Christmas holidays. Pick them green and ripen inside to avoid fruit fly. Arthur's Big Greek Tomatoes can weight up to 1kg.
They are huge!!!!
I've mulched around my Tomato plants with the new Chicken Manure that we've just started to stock. The plants have never looked so green and healthy, and they have big thick stems, so they will be able to hold hundreds of tomatoes.
I can't wait to eat them.
My Willy Wag Tail was sounding the alarm this morning, as I was hanging clothes on the line. She has made her nest in my Weeping Maple this year. She constructed this nest in a couple of weeks. It's a work of art.
She sat on her eggs for two weeks.
They have hatched now.
When she started construction of this nest, my Weeping Maple was deciduous. Now it's covered in spring growth, it's created an umbrella of love over her chicks.
Willy Wag Tails are one of my favourite birds. They are so bossy and alert. You can hear them in your garden. They are incredibly smart.
They will make their nests so close to you, it's incredible.
I took a Chinese Elm home once to plant in my garden. I put it on the patio for a week. It was between the door and my BBQ. When I went to plant it the next week I was surprised to find a birds nest in it. The Willy Wag Tail had decided it was the perfect place for a nest.
The tree planting got postponed for a few weeks. They must build nests close to humans because we scare away the predatory birds.
This is another reason why I love trees so much. They attract birds and nature. The sound of birds and nature make us feel good. We need each other.
I've been watching this tree for a couple of weeks. It's been blooming it's head off in a backyard in Grasmere.
I knocked on the owners door this morning. I could hear a shuffling noise coming from inside. It took a long time to make it to the door.
When the door opens I was met with a smiling face. "Hello I'm Tim, I'm wondering if I could take a photo of your beautiful tree out the back?"
"Yes of course you can, I don't know it's name, I call it The Butterfly Tree, you can go around there and take it's photo."
"That's great but I'd love you in the photo too. I write stories about trees and their owners."
"No I don't want to be in the photo I'm not dressed up enough, but I'll come around with you."
It turns out June was given the tree at least 30 years ago by a friend. She had a beauty growing in her garden, and one popped up so, she gave it to June.
People do call it The Butterfly Tree because it's got leaves shaped like a Butterfly. It comes from Hong Kong. They call it The Hong Kong Orchid Tree.
It's botanically known as Bauhinia variegata. There are darker flowering varieties, and it comes in white too.
June said she loves her tree, and it flowers from November to March. It flowers first, before the leaves come back, to provide shade, in late spring through to autumn.
There's a beauty growing in Mawson Park which we've taken seed from. We've got plants ready to go now.
June has just turned 97.
I often see her out in the garden as I pass by. She didn't know who I was.
But after I'd spoken to her for a while, she was happy to get her photo taken with her spectacular tree.
The Chinese call this the "Clever Leaf", the leaves are a symbol of wisdom. You can dry them and use them as book marks. The flower buds are used to make a curry.
The flowers are fragrant.
It's a wonder this tree doesn't get planted more often. I've seen it used as a street tree in Manly. It would make a great street tree in Macarthur too. We have 10 plants available.
$29.99. Zoom zoom.
We've had nice gardening weather this week. It's great seeing you guys getting out in the garden. If you plant now your garden will look fabulous for Christmas.
Come and see us if you need help.
Or just come for a walk through our nursery.
It will make you feel good.
Happy gardening
Tim